The Impact of Maternal Employment Serious Youth Crime: Does the Quality of Working Conditions Matter?

Autor/inn/en	Ven, Thomas Vander; Cullen, Francis T.
Titel	The Impact of Maternal Employment Serious Youth Crime: Does the Quality of Working Conditions Matter?
Quelle	In: Crime & Delinquency, 50 (2004) 2, S.272-291 (20 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0011-1287
DOI	10.1177/0011128703253165
Schlagwörter	Employment Level; Crime; Mothers; Employed Women; Criminals; Labor Market; Longitudinal Studies; Multiple Regression Analysis; Adolescents; Young Adults; Working Hours; Family Work Relationship + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Beschäftigungsgrad; Crimes; Delict; Delicts; Delikt; Mother; Mutter; 'Female employment; Women''s employment'; Frauenbeschäftigung; Straftäter; Labour market; Arbeitsmarkt; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Young adult; Junger Erwachsener; Hours of work; Arbeitszeit
Abstract	Social critics and the general public have for some time voiced a variety of concerns related to the increasing entrance of women into the paid labor market. A popular assumption has been that the children of working women are prone to criminal activity. The authors analyze data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY), using multiple regression models to examine whether the occupational status of mothers has criminogenic effects on their children during adolescence and early adulthood (15- to 19-year-olds). After tracing the effects of maternal resources, work hours, and occupational controls to criminality, the authors find that cumulative time spent by mothers in paid employment had no measurable influence on criminal involvement. On the other hand, coercively controlled maternal work over time was related to greater criminal involvement (in their children) in adolescence. (Contains 4 tables and 2 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10